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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
卷 851, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
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DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158396
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Waste management; Coronavirus face masks; Plastic pollution; Surgical masks; Sustainability
Billions of disposable face masks are discarded monthly due to COVID-19 outbreak, causing severe damage to the ecosystem. Developing high-yield, effective, and green methods to recycle or upcycle face mask wastes into value-added materials is crucial. This paper reviews recent advances in upcycling methods, focusing on producing value-added materials through various waste conversion methods.
Billions of disposable face masks (i.e., single-use masks) are used and discarded worldwide monthly due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The immethodical disposal of these polymer-based wastes containing non-biodegradable constituents (e.g., polypropylene) has provoked marked and severe damage to the ecosystem. Meanwhile, their ever-growing usage significantly strains the present-day waste management measures such as landfilling and incineration, resulting in large quantities of used face-covering masks landing in the environment as importunate contaminants. Hence, alter-native waste management strategies are crucially demanded to decrease the negative impacts of face mask contamina-tion. In this venue, developing high-yield, effective, and green routes toward recycling or upcycling face mask wastes (FMWs) into value-added materials is of great importance. While existing recycling processes assist the traditional waste management, they typically end up in materials with downgraded physicochemical, structural, mechanical, and thermal characteristics with reduced values. Therefore, pursuing potential economic upcycling processes would be more beneficial than waste disposal and/or recycling processes. This paper reviews recent advances in the FMWs upcycling methods. In particular, we focus on producing value-added materials via various waste conversion methods, including carbonization (i.e., extreme pyrolysis), pyrolysis (i.e., rapid carbonization), catalytic conversion, chemical treatment, and mechanical reprocessing. Generally, the upcycling methods are promising, firming the vital role of managing FMWs' fate and shedding light on the road of state-of-the-art materials design and synthesis.
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